Innovations

ASEAN Taxonomy: Effecting Change for Sustainable Finance

Contributor April 2024

Malaysia is the world’s sixth-largest semiconductor exporter with their chip industry rising with major investments and technological advancements

Contributor April 2024

SkyeChip designs AI chips for data centers, automotive and connected devices and boasts a dozen or so of its own patents on next-generation chips and other technologies.

WateRoam portable water filtration system helping 30,000 people in remote Southeast Asia villages. UN SDG #6 Recognition

Staff Writer March 2024

WateRoam is the organization responsible for a portable water filtration system that has earned recognition from the United Nations for supplying clean drinking water to over 30,000 individuals in remote villages and disaster-stricken areas throughout Southeast Asia.

Japan ‘Mottainai’ culture of ‘No Waste’ Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle gave Life to Abandoned Kimonos into Hand-Crafted Bespoke Sneakers

Contributor March 2024

In 2021, Tokyo Kimono Shoes founder and president, Shotaro Kawamura, rationalised the use of discarded kimonos to create bespoke sneakers with cowhide leather features, enabling him to embrace sustainable fashion while providing livelihoods for seasoned shoe-craftsmen elders with a 70-year heritage – Kodowari.

Thai Demo-Day Innovations with a Focus to Solve Plastic Pollution with Australia’s Mekong Plastics Innovation Alliance

Contributor March 2024

The “Demo Day” showcased six teams of entrepreneurs and their innovations and technologies to tackle plastic waste in Thailand, including solutions to prevent toxic ink in plastics and new ways to use 3D printing to transform plastic packaging. These solutions and others are born out of Australia’s Mekong Plastics Innovation Alliance,

Prince William’s Global Earthshot Prize Shortlists Sugarcrete the building blocks to “Build A Waste-Free World”

Contributor February 2024

Sugarcrete® Brick Redefines the Sweet-Spot Alternative to Concrete The Sugarcrete™ project, born from a collaboration between the University of East London (UEL) , Grimshaw Design Technology Group, and Tate & Lyle Sugars, is a new innovative low-carbon biomaterial building brick made out of bagasse, a dry pulpy fibrous bi-product material of